Airbnb

Backend Engineer

• Explore, shape, and develop new product experiences alongside cross-functional partners (design and product); from ideation to implementation at scale.
• Lead investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock product innovation.
• Develop prototypes to validate ideas while proactively considering long-term implications on technical design and architecture.
• Translate prototypes to high quality, scalable, and maintainable production code through iterative development.
• Help define and improve coding standards, development processes and best practices.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.

Staff Backend Engineer, Reservations and Additional Products

Procurement

• Partner with CIO leadership and technology teams to understand platform needs, business requirements, and technology roadmaps.
• Develop sourcing strategies across enterprise SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, data platforms, security technologies, and workplace systems.
• Lead complex sourcing events including supplier discovery, RFPs, negotiations, and contract execution.
• Evaluate supplier proposals, pricing models, and long-term cost structures.
• Partner with Legal and Finance to structure scalable commercial terms and risk protections.
• Use AI-enabled tools and structured analysis to compare supplier proposals and generate negotiation insights.
• Develop category strategies that improve cost efficiency, supplier innovation, and long-term platform scalability.
• Simplify sourcing processes and improve decision frameworks used by technology stakeholders.
• Build strong partnerships with technology leaders to ensure sourcing is embedded early in platform investment decisions.
• Contribute to building repeatable sourcing knowledge frameworks that improve how decisions are made across the organization.

Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Engineering & Infrastructure

• Partner with engineering leaders to understand technology roadmaps and translate them into sourcing strategies and supplier engagement plans.
• Lead end-to-end sourcing initiatives across infrastructure, engineering services, developer tooling, and emerging technology platforms.
• Structure and run complex sourcing processes including market assessments, RFPs, supplier selection, and enterprise negotiations.
• Evaluate supplier capabilities, pricing models, and technical fit to support engineering decision-making.
• Support major infrastructure and platform negotiations including cloud, data infrastructure, developer platforms, and AI technologies.
• Use data and AI-enabled tools to analyze proposals, compare supplier economics, and extract insights from contracts and proposals.
• Partner with Legal and Finance to structure commercial terms that balance engineering flexibility with financial discipline.
• Develop category strategies that improve supplier performance, manage risk, and create long-term competitive advantage.
• Contribute to the evolution of sourcing workflows by helping implement AI-enabled analysis, deal summaries, and supplier evaluation frameworks.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to drive successful negotiations and supplier outcomes.

Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Enterprise Technology

Customer Support

• Perform monthly budget vs. actuals (BVA) analysis across Community Support spend categories, including headcount, technology platforms, vendor services, and per-unit metrics; deliver clear variance explanations and insights for leadership.
• Own Payroll and headcount forecasting for the Community Support organization, including sizing the financial impact of headcount changes across location, level, and job family.
• Assist in cost planning initiatives by tracking actuals against forecasts, identifying efficiency opportunities, and contributing to scenario modeling.
• Prepare monthly financial reporting and targeted ad hoc analyses for Community Support stakeholders, highlighting key drivers of cost and performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally on Community Support initiatives such as new product launches, cost allocation, and efficiency tracking.
• Support the annual planning cycle by developing planning templates, supporting headcount asks, modeling cost impact, and guiding Community Support leaders through planning processes

Customer Support Analyst, Strategic Finance

Machine Learning Engineer

• Spearhead LLM agents, real-time anomaly detectors, and other breakthrough solutions that solve real-world problems and create product magic.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, ops, and data science to spot high leverage opportunities, refine AI/ML requirements, make principled architecture choices, and measure business value with clear, data-driven metrics.
• Design, train, deploy, and operate large-scale AI applications for both batch and streaming workloads, ensuring low latency, high reliability, and continuous improvement via automated monitoring and retraining loops.
• Mentor and inspire teammates, fostering a collaborative, experimentation-driven environment where cutting edge research meets production excellence and every engineer is empowered to push AI boundaries at Airbnb.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Payments

Engineering Manager

• Lead a team of 6-8 engineers building user-facing experiences for identity verification and privacy settings
• Own the identity verification experience end-to-end
• Drive privacy controls allowing user autonomy
• Deliver compliance experiences meeting legal requirements
• Partner with Trust platform teams for polished product interactions
• Navigate ambiguous product, legal, and engineering intersections
• Grow a high-performing, cross-platform engineering team

Engineering Manager, Identity & Privacy Experience, Users, Identity & Community

• Partner with Community Support Product and Experience team
• Build frameworks to measure ROI and cost-effectiveness of technology deployments
• Develop financial and strategic analyses on support models and AI impact
• Maintain cost and savings forecasts, vendor spend tracking
• Collaborate on Community Support initiatives

Principal, Customer Support, Strategic Finance

Android Engineer

• Design and evolve foundational Android frameworks like Trio, dependency injection, and navigation to improve developer productivity and app quality at scale.
• Partner with product engineering teams to understand their pain points, identify systemic issues, and deliver durable framework solutions that simplify their work.
• Design frameworks with AI-assisted development in mind.

Staff Software Engineer, Android Platform Frameworks

Manager

• Lead and develop public policy campaigns aimed at mitigating risks, promoting growth and advancing Airbnb and our host’s interests.
• Lead and develop and execute the public policy strategy, concentrating mainly on influencing the development of policy and regulations impacting host eligibility and the platform throughout the assigned region.
• Represent Airbnb in associations, meetings, and events with government and elected officials and other stakeholders, in order to help advance the company’s advocacy initiatives
• Develop communications, local stakeholder engagement strategy and partnership programs; establish new and maintain existing relationships with an extensive network of contacts, including government officials.
• Research, analyze, distill and synthesize ordinances and bills and effectively articulate Airbnb’s positions to policymakers at both the local and state levels of government. Must also be able to effectively advocate and influence multiple external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with internal cross-functional partners.
• Manage local consultants and agencies to support policy efforts.
• Monitor and analyze legislation and regulation and local issues that may have pan-regional implications.
• Ensures progress is reported regularly, and roadblocks flagged in a timely fashion.

Senior Manager, Public Policy

Business Operations

• Support the planning and business operations engine for Community Blueprint: Coordinate planning, prioritization, and portfolio reviews aligned to company goals and tackling customer pain points
• Define and maintain operating cadences, forums, and decision-making stage gates
• Own productivity tooling for Community Blueprint and source-of-truth assets: Lead the evolution of our Airtable-based portfolio and learnings trackers; define taxonomy, workflows, interfaces, and integrations (e.g., Jira, data/reporting).
• Partner with Analytics/Eng to stand up durable dashboards and executive views; reduce manual reporting through automation
• Drive cross-functional program delivery from problem identification to solution execution: Translate pain points and insights into structured program plans with clear milestones, owners, and success metrics.
• Proactively surface risks, unblock dependencies, and maintain “path to green” plans.
• Create leadership-ready narratives and business cases: Build concise, data-backed updates for executive forums; connect initiatives to business impact and time-to-close.
• Establish standardized templates for updates, release notes, and post-launch readouts.
• Up-level how we work: Implement lightweight, repeatable governance, RACI, and intake/change control.
• Lead retrospectives; codify improvements into playbooks, templates, and SOPs.
• Champion consistent labeling/tagging (e.g., customer journey, domain) for reliable rollups across tools and teams.

Planning – Business Operations Lead

Security Engineer

• Facilitate biannual planning cycles, including goal setting, cross-functional alignment, resource allocation, and budget management. Develop and adapt frameworks to prioritize and allocate capacity across teams.
• Establish and track Objective Key Results (OKRs) to measure the effectiveness of strategic initiatives and operational processes.
• Drive the execution of major organizational projects, ensuring timely delivery and achievement of outcomes.
• Streamline workflows to improve efficiency, productivity, and scalability within InfoSec. Use automation, process improvements, and self-service tools, and lead change management and adoption efforts.
• Prepare company-wide InfoSec communications, including reports and emails etc for engineering audiences.
• Partner with organizational leaders on budgeting, headcount planning, and resource allocation.
• Provide actionable insights to support decision-making and assess the effectiveness of executive operations.
• Develop and implement best practices for project management, data analysis, and reporting.

Senior Program Manager, Information Security

• This is a highly strategic, senior role with a mandate to define and build a new product area from the ground up
• You will own the full stack of the business host payout experience -- both in-product (app and web) and through our API and developer platform -- and will be responsible for developing net-new financial management products
• You will partner with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and field operations to build and scale these capabilities
• You will also work closely with external enterprise partners and business host stakeholders to deeply understand their needs and ensure the products we build drive real business impact.
• Payout instrument management flows: enabling business hosts to set up, manage, and optimize payout methods across multiple accounts and currencies
• Host team management flows: tools and permissions that allow business hosts to delegate access and manage large internal teams operating across their Airbnb accounts
• Earnings reconciliation flows: comprehensive reporting and reconciliation capabilities designed to meet the accounting and financial operations needs of large-scale hosts
• New financial services offerings: identifying and building value-added financial products and services tailored to the unique needs of business hosts.

Staff Platform Manager, Business Host Payouts

• Define and execute new approaches to detecting, containing, and mitigating security threats and incidents, while driving the next stage of maturity for our investigations and response capabilities.
• Own incident response and investigation outcomes, leading end-to-end response across identification, containment, eradication, and recovery.
• Shape how the team operates—evolving operating models, guiding execution during incidents, and scaling through thoughtful use of automation and engineering.
• Define and drive the strategy for a modern incident response function, ensuring high-quality investigations and that every incident leads to meaningful improvements in our detection and response capabilities.
• Assess current capabilities and chart the path forward across people, process, and technology, evolving the operating model to support effective global response.
• Scale the function through automation, tooling, and improved workflows—solving repeatable problems with systems, not manual effort.
• Serve as a key voice to senior leadership, communicating incident trends, risks, and strategic direction, and partner across the company to turn incident learnings into durable security improvements resulting in removal of entire classes of problems.

Engineering Manager – Investigations and Incident Response

Full-stack Engineer

• Work with large scale back end systems to detect risks, using rules and connecting to productionalized machine learning models.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners including machine learning engineers, product managers, operations and data scientists, identify opportunities for business impact, understand, refine, and prioritize requirements for risk and mitigation.
• Building out tooling and automation for operations to more effectively reduce safety risks.
• Minimize good user impact while developing products to deter bad actors.
• Examples include: build party risk detection mechanism and prevent it from happening, identify and prevent human trafficking cases, building data pipelines for product analysis and machine learning, and reducing safety risk at scale.

Senior Software Engineer, Safety

General Counsel

• Provide day-to-day legal support on intellectual property and open source matters that shape how Airbnb builds, uses, and shares technology.
• Advise on IP licensing and transactions and partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen open source governance and compliance.
• Support Airbnb’s Tech Brand initiatives from concept through publication—providing legal review and practical risk guidance for external communications, technical storytelling, and developer- and community-facing programs.
• Enable innovation and technology-focused storytelling with clear guardrails—supporting engineering velocity while protecting Airbnb’s brand, IP, and marketplace integrity.
• Draft, review, and negotiate IP-related terms in commercial and intercompany agreements.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to identify repeatable IP issues and help build templates, guidance, and escalation paths that enable faster, more consistent decision-making.
• Review and advise on external-facing Tech Brand materials, which may include blog posts, technical articles, and engineering announcements, conference talks, presentation decks, and speaker participation, and developer/community programs, events, and related communications.